aship en · ADV
Etymology
From a- + ship.
Meanings
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(US, dated, not-comparable, rare) On or onto a ship.
then the stern line was thrown aship, and the boat was off
1912, Charles E. Young, chapter 6, in Dangers of the Trail in 1865, Geneva, NY: Press of W.F. Humphrey, page 116:[…] it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore.
1880, Mark Twain, chapter 17, in A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 154: